12-18-84.1
Section 12-18-84.1 Election to retire with 24 years of service. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any judge of probate who has served for not less than 24 years on any one or more of such courts or has 24 years of creditable service in the Judicial Retirement Fund shall be eligible to retire under this chapter, regardless of age, if upon electing to retire with less than 25 years of service, prior to his or her date of retirement he or she pays to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Judicial Retirement Fund a lump sum in an amount equal to the annual employer and employee contributions necessary to purchase one year of creditable service in the fund based on the final annual state salary earned by the judge during his or her most recent fiscal year of active judicial service. (Act 98-365, p. 664, §1.)...
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12-18-84
Section 12-18-84 Eligibility for retirement. Any probate judge serving on December 27, 1973, who elects to become a member of the retirement fund hereby established, and any probate judge assuming such office after October 1, 1976, may elect to be retired pursuant to this article if he or she qualifies under any one of the following: (1) Has served as much as five years as a probate judge and has become permanently, physically or mentally unable to carry out his or her duties on a full-time basis, proof of such disability being made by certificate of three reputable physicians; (2) Has served as much as 12 years as a probate judge and has reached or passed the age of 65 years; (3) Has served as much as 15 years as probate judge and is not less than 62 years of age or has served as such for more than 15 years and has attained age 62, less one year for each year of service in excess of 15; provided, that such probate judge shall have attained not less than 60 years of age; (4) Has served...
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12-18-111
Section 12-18-111 Transfer of contributions and creditable service - Eligibility requirements; adjusted benefits; formulas; district or probate judges excepted; spouses benefits. (a) Any member of the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama whose creditable service and contributions have been certified and transferred to the Judicial Retirement Fund, shall be entitled to retire under the said fund on service or disability, upon attaining sufficient years of age and creditable service, including credit for service transferred to the fund under the provisions of this article, to qualify for said retirement, in accordance with the service and age requirements contained in this chapter for the judicial position in which such member is serving at the time of retirement, subject to the adjustments in benefits and allowances provided for in this section. The surviving spouse of a member of the Judicial Retirement Fund shall be entitled to count or employ creditable service certified and...
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12-18-112
Section 12-18-112 Transfer of contributions and creditable service - District judge's adjusted benefit formulas; spouse's benefits. In the event a member of the Judicial Retirement Fund, who is a district judge, or a surviving spouse thereof, must employ and count creditable service transferred under this article to qualify for retirement and/or benefits under the fund, the benefits or allowances payable to such member or spouse shall be calculated as follows, and shall be in lieu of any and all other rights, benefits and allowances, except social security payments: (1) The annual service allowance payable to a retiring district judge shall be an annual amount equal to the sum of: a. The amount which results when 90 percent of the retirement benefits payable by the state to circuit judges on the date such district judge retires (as is provided under Section 12-18-58) is multiplied by the ratio created when the member's number of years of creditable service, excluding transferred...
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12-18-113
Section 12-18-113 Transfer of contributions and creditable service - Probate judge's adjusted benefit formulas; spouse's benefits. In the event a member of the Judicial Retirement Fund, who is a probate judge, or a surviving spouse thereof, must employ and count creditable service transferred under this article to qualify for retirement and/or benefits under the fund, the benefits or allowances payable to such member or spouse shall be calculated as follows, and shall be in lieu of any and all other rights, benefits and allowances, except Social Security payments: (1) The annual service allowance payable to a retiring probate judge shall be an annual amount equal to the sum of: a. The amount which results when 75 percent of the base sum or salary upon which such judge was contributing, as provided in Section 12-18-82, immediately prior to retirement is multiplied by the ratio created when the member's number of years of creditable service, excluding transferred credit, is compared to...
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12-18-8.3
Section 12-18-8.3 Restoration of prior creditable service; participation in other public retirement systems. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this chapter, any judge who is currently a member of the Judicial Retirement Fund or who becomes a member of the Judicial Retirement Fund at a future date, who had previously withdrawn his or her funds from the Judicial Retirement Fund or whose account had been terminated due to a five-year absence shall have restored to him or her all creditable service if the judge completes two years of contributing membership service after he or she again becomes a member of the retirement fund and subsequently repays to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Judicial Retirement Fund the amount previously returned to him or her including compounded interest of eight percent to the date of repayment, prior to the date of retirement of the member. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, any member who elects to purchase credit for withdrawn service shall be...
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12-18-131
Section 12-18-131 Eligibility to retire regardless of age. Notwithstanding Section 12-18-40 or 12-18-55, any justice of the Supreme Court, any judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, any judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, any circuit judge, or any district judge who has served for not less than 25 years on any one or more of such courts or has 25 years of creditable service in the Judicial Retirement System shall be eligible to retire under this chapter regardless of age. (Act 98-295, p. 481, §2.)...
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12-18-87
Section 12-18-87 Benefits. (a) Judges' retirement benefits. - The annual retirement benefit payable to a probate judge retiring pursuant to subdivisions (2), (3), (4), and (5) of Section 12-18-84 shall be 75 percent of the base sum or salary upon which such judge is paying the percentage as provided in subsection (a) or subsection (b) of Section 12-18-82 immediately prior to retirement. Such retirement benefit shall be payable monthly from the State Treasury for the life of the beneficiary. (b) Spouses' benefits. - After the death of any probate judge who has held office for a minimum of five years, his or her spouse shall receive a yearly benefit from the State Treasury equivalent to the greater of $480.00 per year, multiplied by the number of years of service, not to exceed 10 years, or three percent of the base sum or salary upon which such probate judge was paying the percentage as provided in subsection (a) or subsection (b) of Section 12-18-82 immediately prior to retirement,...
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12-18-133
Section 12-18-133 Purchase of additional credit. Any justice of the Supreme Court, judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, circuit judge, or district judge who has 24 years of creditable service in the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama may elect to purchase credit in the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama for up to one additional year. Any justice or judge eligible to purchase such credit shall be awarded such credit provided that the justice or judge shall pay into the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama a sum of money which is equal to the annual contribution of both the justice or judge and the annual contribution of the state into the fund at the time of election to purchase the credit multiplied by each year or fraction thereof of service credit claimed. The election and payment shall be made to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama, administrator of the Judicial Retirement Fund. (Act 98-295, p. 481, §4.)...
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12-18-40
Section 12-18-40 Retirement at age 60; computation; cost-of-living; prior service. On or after July 30, 1979, any person assuming office for the first time as a justice of the Supreme Court, judge of a court of appeals or a circuit judge, shall receive and be entitled to all retirement benefits prescribed in Title 12, Chapter 18, Articles 1 and 2, except as follows: (1) The provisions of subdivisions (3) and (5) of both subsections (a) and (b) of Section 12-18-6, to the contrary notwithstanding, except for disability, no such justice or judge shall be eligible to receive judicial service retirement pay prior to attaining 60 years of age. (2) The retirement pay or benefit of each such justice or judge shall be based and computed pursuant to the provisions of Section 12-18-10, at the percentage rate therein prescribed of his final salary received from the state at the time of retirement. Retired justices and judges coming under this article shall be entitled to receive cost-of-living...
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